Dave ultimately had the answer for "updateg", but let me ask further, if
I may: I normal maintain 3 computers and don't have a lot of problems.
(I started in college on Cobol (is that how you spell it?) and Fortran
over 40 years ago, learned to program in DOS and C in the 80's, and of
all Window

StartEdLite says one of my computers has Updateg Trojan set to start at
Windows startup. Anyone know anything about this? MalwareBytes, Zone
Alarms, and Emmisoft failed to fine it. How do I locate it and get rid
of it? (The g at the end is not a typo.) StartEdLite says it messes with
the clock.

I see what you mean. That's very interesting. So a bad guy can eventually sign up on mailing lists and get genuine email addresses for spamming. Not to mention it's a cakewalk to automate the entire process. Baah. And that's exactly what's happening. It's true that cached threads mask the email but

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I am assuming here that the user using this tool will go through the help
file before he uses Combofix. It requires very basic steps like enabling the
system recovery, disabling existing antivirus, etc. If this is not done, the
tool warns you with a strict warning which I think every user shoul

1. Kaspersky one of the leading antivirus vendor has a removal tool which is Kaspersky Removal Tool; though size of the tool is bit bulky i.e. Around 80 MB. The good part of this tool is that it generates the report of scan in ver detailed manner and let y